Monthly Archives: February 2019

Cyprus plans to hike the minimum investment requirement under its Citizenship by Investment program. It says it will use the extra annual revenue of an estimated €35 million to subsidize rents for vulnerable households and fund an affordable housing program. The Real Estate Tradeoff Virtually all investment immigration programs offer real estate as an…

February 16, 2019 – Spain’s residence-by-investment program is seeing record demand having recently passed 24,000 golden visas issued since its 2013 launch. Figures suggest 2018 broke the record set in 2017 for the most visas issued through the program in a year. The 2017 record stands at 5,876, with the first 10 months of 2018…

The latest EB-5 visa retrogression data reveals that mainland China remains the largest source of applications for the visa. However, 2018 was the first year since 2013, when China hit its annual quota cap for the first time, that cumulative applications from other countries outnumbered Chinese EB-5 applications. In 2018, other countries accounted for 52…

Vanuatu is a Pacific paradise made up of approximately 82 islands in the South Pacific Ocean. Located 1,750km from Australia, it is a Y-shaped archipelago of volcanic origin. The Vanuatu Capital Investment Immigration Plan (CIIP) offers citizenship in return for a modest investment. Its aim is to create jobs, stimulate the economy and balance the…

British Columbia immigration set a new record for the lowest-ever minimum score for the third draw running in its first Entrepreneur stream draw of 2019. The January 20 draw saw 19 invites issued to candidates scoring as low as 109 points under the BC PNP Entrepreneur stream. What Was the Minimum Score For The Latest…